Sunday, July 12, 2015

Accommodating Business

It has been a while since Britain's Head Boy hugged a husky, particularly since he's had the corpse of Little Ivan™ to wave around; and the dumping of the green crap is now proceeding apace. The Government has abandoned any pretence of interest in controlling carbon emissions, and has now removed the regulations obliging house-builders to make all homes carbon-neutral after 2016. The regulations were introduced by Gordon Brown in 2006, his anticipation that he wouldn't have to worry about enforcing them being one of his few astute political judgements. Nevertheless, this latest Osbornomic massacre of red tape has been vociferously condemned by all sorts of people whose opinion the Bullingdon Club doesn't care about: builders (are there no prisons? are there no cardboard boxes?), planners (a heresy against market forces), green groups (enough said) and a Liberal Democrat. Ed Davey (not to be confused with Ed or Davey) tweeted that Britain's Head Boy "may as well hug a coal power station", which is jolly strong stuff from the flunkey who spent three years generating excuses for the coalition's lack of interest in keeping the planet habitable.